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Unicode Status for Inscriptional Parthian

In The Unicode Standard, Inscriptional Parthian script implementation is discussed in Chapter 10 Middle East-II — Ancient Scripts.

The Inscriptional Parthian script was encoded in The Unicode Standard version 5.2. The script is encoded in the following block:

BlocksCharacter RangeAdded in Unicode VersionUnicode Chart
Inscriptional Parthian10B40..10B5F5.2U10B40.pdf

A number of proposals for its inclusion have been submitted to the Unicode Technical Committee and WG2:

  • 2000-12-21 Encoding Iranian Scripts in Unicode, Iranianist meeting report from Paris — Carl-Martin Bunz (L2/01-007)

  • 2007-04-12 Proposal for encoding the Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the BMP of the UCS — Michael Everson (WG2 N3241, L2/07-102)

  • 2007-09-18 Proposal for encoding the Inscriptional Parthian, Inscriptional Pahlavi, and Psalter Pahlavi scripts in the SMP of the UCS — Michael Everson, Roozbeh Pournader (WG2 N3286, L2/07-207)

  • 2012-11-03 Sorting all RTL scripts together — Roozbeh Pournader (L2/12-377)